Sunday, March 29, 2015

North Shore Kauai Limahuli Garden

On a misty Kauai Saturday night (photo taken out living room window toward the mountain) we prop up tired legs stretched out on a five-mile hike to Limahuli Garden, a 17-acre terraced jewel that's part of the 985-acre Limahuli Preserve.

Situated just before the road ends at Ke'e Beach (the famed Kalalau Trail begins at the western end of the beach), the gardens are overseen by the majestic Mount Makana, aka Bali Hai for its role in the 1958 film South Pacific.

Ke'e Beach

But first we walked there along a road--the only road on the north side of the island--that was fairly quiet at 9 am, but loaded with Saturday traffic on the return.